Etymologies

Examples

One of their finger-like claws was a third the length of their entire body, although in fact it's not their middle fingers which were elongated, but their pinkies, meaning that they were also the fanciest dinosaurs of all time.

But while cricket is genteel, conjuring up images of tea-drinking vicars with pinkies extended on the village green, the organised chaos of hurling is more reminiscent of a couple of gangs of horny-handed rival villagers setting about each other with pitchforks.